Tyler Ford's story is so inspiring.

At Tuesday night's AMFAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) gala, Miley Cyrus didn't just accept a huge award for her activism. She slayed the red carpet and spread a message about gender identity all at once.

The Associated Press reports that Miley was honored at the gala for her work in the fight against AIDS, along with Bravo host Andy Cohen. She also auctioned off three bedazzled versions of Caitlyn Jenner's Vanity Fair cover, autographed by Caitlyn herself, which sold for a whopping $69,000.

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Her date, Tyler Ford, introduced her on stage and spread the word about being agender. "Tyler is a queer, biracial, and agender person, whose pronouns are they/them/theirs," Miley wrote on an Instagram post introducing her 24-year-old date.

Tyler is a former contestant on The Glee Project, and is currently a photographer, poet, and staff writer at Rookie magazine. "My whole life, I was led to believe that there were only two genders," they said in a quote on Miley's Instagram. "I thought I had to shrink myself to fit into a box that was never going to contain me. It took years for me to find words for my gender identity, and to feel comfortable expressing myself as I am."

Agender people feel they have no gender identity, or one that's neutral or "blank." Miley has been campaigning lately to raise awareness of people who don't feel like they fit within a "binary" of male or female, and she has said she can relate to that. "I'm just equal. I'm just even. It has nothing to do with any parts of me or how I dress or how I look. It's literally just how I feel," she told Time.

Miley's activism is really inspiring, and her message is one that it's tough to disagree with: "People try to make everyone something," she told Time. "You can just be whatever you want to be."